I Am Here For You (IzuOcha)

Chapter 36: Night Lights

The sun was setting now, and Izuku had meditated the best he could. However, he only managed that first initial time. Excitement had clouded his mind, and after the familiar twilight started enclosing around him and a tired looking Eri, now sitting next to him counting all the flowers she had found, Izuku decided to call it a day.

"You're looking pretty sleepy. Did you play hard today?" Izuku asked, chuckling a bit, looking down at the small girl next to him.

"Yea... It was fun..." She said, falling asleep a bit and leaning on Izuku's arm, dropping the flowers.

Izuku picked Eri up and placed her on his back, holding her up by the legs. Izuku looked up at the sky, it wa getting late, and that meant Ochaco was probably back in her dorm. Izuku smiled. He had really wanted to see her today. It was weird, not going to class. Usually he would have walked with her to class, glanced at her a few times during class and then studied with her afterwards. He missed her...

Izuku blinked a few times. That was a new feeling. He missed her a lot now that he thought about it. They have been constantly together these last few months, and even before they were dating. Life without her, even if it was just a day off from school like today, was weird. Lonely, even. Izuku started walking towards the dorms, hurrying a bit in order to see his cinnamon roll of a girlfriend, before running into Bakugo.

"OI, NERD!" Bakugo called out from the road. "I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU YA DAMN DEKU, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!"

"Ka-Chan, quiet down! Eri is trying to sleep."

"DON'T TELL ME-" Bakugo started but Izuku shot him piercing look. Bakugo stopped. Deku didn't usually fight back, even if it was a simple look.

"Tsk, whatever. I came looking for you because I heard about what happened. You didn't lose One for All did you?" He asked in a relatively calmer voice.

"I wouldn't say I lost it, more like I can't activate it. It's still there, every now and then it takes over when I need it most. Im assuming the drug affected me a bit differently since I'm technically already quirkless. Can't de-evolve what's already de-evolved..."

Bakugo put his hands in his pockets and started walking back to the dorms, turning back for only a second.

"I don't care about the damn innerworkings. Just get your quirk back. I won't accept a victory like this."

He walked off. Izuku starred before shaking his head and walking after him towards the dorms. He had a little girl to put to bed and a girlfriend to see.

***

Ochaco was at her desk, multiple papers on stacked and scattered across. She had homework from classes, information on Gas Lighter that was given to her by Aizawa that the Pro Heroes had dug up, and information regarding her hero duties and schedules balancing out classes and patrols investigating where Gas Lighter was. Ochaco sighed.

She put her head on her desk. This was going to be a lot, and she didn't have a choice but to suck it up and do it. Gas Lighter was still out there and he hurt her Izu. But it's only night one and this is already starting to weigh on her... No, she couldn't just quit because it was hard. She will organize and set this up. It's what Izuku would do.

She sat up and started reading through the Gas Lighter documents before there was a knock at the door.

"Come in!" She called without looking up from her papers. Izuku walked in with a smile.

"Hey there Ocha.. Woah whatcha got going on there?" He asked, walking over to her.

"Izu... It's so much..." She complained to him as he walked up and stood next to her. She wrapped her arms around his waist, still sitting in her chair as he stood looking over at the papers.